SCOUTS JAMBOREE

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1929, Page 3

SCOUTS JAMBOREE

A HUGE GATHERING. United Press Association -By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, July 30. i' By to-night fifty thousand boys will be under canvas at Arrow Park, Birkenhead, who are assembled for the World Jamboree of Boy Scouts. One writer describes it as the most wonderful gathering of nations of the world since the "building of the Tower of Babel came to an untimely end. -ill yesterday train after train emptied its freight of boys, who reported to headquarters. i Scouts from New Zealand and Australia fraternised with Americans in tartan lumber j“ackets 4 . Sea scouts in .American navy pork-pie caps swapped yarns with boys from Canada. Bright little Japs fraternised with giants from Scandinavia. Everybody seemed concerned that the solitary lad from the Fiji Islands should not feel lonely. When the Duke of Connaught opens the Jamboree on Wednesday, there Will be only two countriesninrepresented officially—namely Russia and Italy. The whole of the great undulating .Jamboree City covers 450 acres, and is broken up with reads picturesquely named Pilgrims, Kangaroo, Mongoose, and Tiger Lane. Everywhere there is the same wonderful spirit of camaraderie displayed. Throughout yesterday afternoon there were many rehearsals of the great pageants being staged before the Prince of Wales on -.nursday and Friday.